Kubuntu Intrepid, kmenuedit has duplicate entries

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Although still not really correct, it might well be that the two entries are set for each of KDE3 and KDE4. I found it some time ago, after I upgraded to KDE4 (while still having a lot of KDE3 applications installed).

I doubt it, because there isn't a KDE3 version of Intrepid, and Hardy (which did have a KDE3 and KDE4 version) did not have this problem. ALL applications are duplicated in kmenuedit, not just the ones that have KDE3 alternates.

Hmm, I see dupes for Qt4 Designer and maybe one or two other apps, but not all of them have dupes.

I just set up Ubuntu on my new laptop. This time I chose to have Ubuntu and Kubuntu at the same time. In kmenuedit, the entry duplication problem still happens. Please see the screenshot I'm about to attach, this is not just a few icons.

I think this might have something to do with the bugged favorites/duplicates in Kickoff since only apps affected by that bug are affected by this bug.

It would make sense.

In KDE4 I usually delete the descriptions in order to force KDE to
alphabetize the application icons by application name, and in doing
that, I discovered this bug.

Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> I think this might have something to do with the bugged
> favorites/duplicates in Kickoff since only apps affected by that bug are
> affected by this bug.
>
>

kde4libs (4:4.1.2-0ubuntu10) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Remove 12_deprecate_applnk.diff, it was the cause of all the problems with
    non-kde4 applications we had (broken icons, duplicated entries etc.)
    (LP: #254688, #268800)
  * Add kubuntu_11_fix_openwithdialog.diff to increase reliability of
    kopenwithdialog. Without the patch it creates KService objects using
    findByName, which is wrong whenever there is a non-application service
    type with the same name as the application (e.g. Kontact and kontactconfig)

 -- Harald Sitter < <email address hidden>> Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:14:56 +0200